Yorgos Moraris, from «The Poem- Portrait», ed. Kastaniotis, 2017 [Translated from the Greek by Yannis Goumas]
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The Poem-Portrait
Gone are the days
when the bandits on Parnassus
were more than the snowfall
and drummers raised high-sounding walls
in the unfortified land.
Now in the palace square
they are laying the carpet weaved
with the fibre of class.
They leave the bandits’ severed heads
on a log-pillow
for the blood that turned out to be medicinal.
People gathered
to wash off evil in the stream of tears.
One of King Otto’s guards
in black and a red cloak like an executioner
held by the beard the head of Davelis
showing the crowd how obedient it had become.
Young at the time, the painter Gyzis
chased near the royal garden
a butterfly’s elusive dust
that made its wings iridescent.
He took the last colours
from the sunset’s palette
to paint the dark apparition.
The beautiful head of the chief of bandits opened its eyes
and stared beyond the bounds of his life.
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